Hero Fold 

With four players in the hunt for glory, one player had a huge amount of chips. Russia’s ‘Army034’ looked dominant with 30.3 million chips as ‘No-Ola’ (13.1m), ‘focus_nik’ (9.6m) and ‘youngmoney23’ (8.3m) all jockeyed for position behind them. ‘No-Ola’ found a moment to get all in with a pocket pair, but their deuces were no match for their Russian caller’s pocket aces and ‘Army034’ had taken yet another scalp, the Hong Kong player taking fourth place for $435,253. 

The overnight chip leader fell just short in their attempt to win a second title in a matter of weeks as ‘focus_nik’ busted in third place for $563,017. Shoving pre-flop from the small blind with king-jack of diamonds, they were unfortunate to bust to ‘Army034’s eight-deuce of hearts as the board came 5-5-2-K-3 with a heart flush arriving on the turn card of a king. 

That pot gave ‘Army034’ a gargantuan chip lead heading into the final duel, as they racked up 52.8 million chips to the Lebanese player ‘youngmoney23’s 8.8 million. Despite this lead, heads-up took over 30 minutes to play out, as the Lebanese player somehow didn’t go bust with hands like king-five on a board of K-8-8-Q-5 when up against the Russian’s king-eight. 

Incredibly, the Lebanese player did grind back into contention, even doubled up to just a 2:1 dog when ace-queen beat pocket fives. A little later, however, king-five came back to bite ‘youngmoney23’ as they shoved with a suited version of it and ran into the Russian’s ace-jack. No help came for the Lebanese player and ‘Army034’ was the champion, winning their first-ever GGMILLION$ title and the top prize of $943,582. 

You can watch the full final table replay with regular presenter Jeff Gross resuming his seat after WSOP exertions and Peruvian bracelet winner Diego Ventura this week’s special guest co-commentator right here.